Almost 3 Hour Rain Delay

I organized a small group to go to the Indians game last night. The Padres are in town for the weekend. The Padres are my second favorite team. Why would they be my second favorite team, because they have Brian Giles and Jody Gerut, two of my favorite players. (I also like Omar Vizquel and Grady Seizemore.) There were eight of us who went to the game. Rain was being predicted.

Padres didn't score in the top half of the first inning. Bottom of the first, Grady comes up for his first at-bat. Grady hits a home run, his 15th of the season. The score is now 1-0. Two outs later, Ryan Garko is up to bat, and it starts to rain. The tarp comes out, and the it pours like crazy. There was thunder and lightning. I eventually get into one of the hallways, where it was dry. The rain did slow down to a drizzle, but picked back up again. There were 8 in our group, and six of them left sometime around 9 pm. One other person and myself stayed. The game finally resumed at 10 pm, 2 hours and 43 minutes after the game was stopped for rain. My friend and I stayed for two more innings and another hour. Before we left, we saw Kelly Shoppach hit a 2 run home run, and the score was then 3-9. This was Kelly's second home run in two nights. Because of Victor going on the DL, Kelly is now the everyday catcher. I like Kelly and think he is a pretty good player.

I understand why they were reluctant to call the game due to rain. Between last night and the end of the month is Interleague play. That means, this is the only time they will play these different teams all summer. That makes it very difficult to make up any rain called games. If they couldn't do a double-header then they just wouldn't be able to make it up. It would've been different it they were an American League team they play 2-3 different series throughout the season.

We left about 11 pm and got back to my house about 11:45 pm. I was really tired. My fatigue level was up pretty high. I went upstairs to my room about midnight after talking to my mom for a few minutes. I end up watching the rest of the game and did not go to bed til about 1:15 am. Grady hit another home run, his third 2 HR game this season. We won, with the final score being 9-5.

There are no pics to post, because I didn't take any. I am going to another game next month. That is 3 Indians games in one season. I have been to two games in a season before, but not in three in a season.